Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 112 114
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +33
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 20 22 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.79% 1.08% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.03% 4.35% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £325 £313 £441
25th Percentile £406 £460 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -10.64% +6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £683
90th Percentile £730 £669 £754
London median daily rate £518 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.50% - -9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 661 506 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.09% 24.89% 23.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 335 338
10th Percentile £405 £313 £371
25th Percentile £463 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £655
90th Percentile £734 £762 £775
London median daily rate £545 £530 £538
% change year-on-year +2.83% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 5
10th Percentile £19.45 £25.11 £20.33
25th Percentile £26.63 £26.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.53 £31.78 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.86% +17.69% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.31 £55.06 -
90th Percentile £68.53 £65.39 £37.05
London median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +110.74% -16.17% -45.45%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -16 17 £438 -16.67% 15
Southwark - 2 £650 - 1
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (10.00%) Azure API Management
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (10.00%) Serverless
7 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
7 1 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) DKIM
3 1 (5.00%) DMARC
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) Power Query
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Customer Service Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Field Service Technician
4 1 (5.00%) Junior DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
3 2 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) iPad
3 1 (5.00%) iPhone
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (30.00%) Migration
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) CRM
5 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (15.00%) Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) Case Management
6 3 (15.00%) Coaching
6 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) Bicep
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) A+ Certification
4 2 (10.00%) CCNA
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) MCSE
4 2 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Dell
2 1 (5.00%) EMC
2 1 (5.00%) Okta
2 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.00%) Remedy
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) VMware